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we had a good trip, thank you
bear

There is a sad place where all the poets go.
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They eat the bread of life and
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instantly they are taken there.
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They can sit and dream about
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the clouds and of love
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uninterupted by the rest of the world.
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There is a merry place where all the children go.
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They crawl through a pipe and
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on the otherside they will see
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blue misted moutains and purple hills.
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They will play the games of my youth
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and will never be called to dinner
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by their impersonal mothers and hateful fathers.
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There is a dark place where the cowboys ride.
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They jump over the fire and through the smoke.
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In this place the work is done
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but hunger is always there.
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They are safe from humanity
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but they cannot hide from themselves.
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There is a place I need to return to.
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I never want to go back, but the need is there.
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Thousands of people staring at me.
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Thousands not caring about my fate.
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Millions blaming me for the thing
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I never could have done,
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but some how I became the scape goat.
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I hope you can come with me
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to escape the world and become
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addicted to that place where you
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will belong in time enough.
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13 Oct 05


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any comments? please?
 — bear

i changed the title.
 — bear

i like it.
 — noodleman

its like a song you sing with just a guitar and theres a lot of smoke and an old whore in teh corner of the bar who'll take out her dentures for an extra buck and a guy they call "the kernel" only he was just a private first class and johnny cash i s most of the jukebox.
 — noodleman

thanks noodleman, that means a lot coming from you. is that a song?
 — bear

i actually sang it out loud when i read it. it sings nicely. :)
 — noodleman

haha, actually i had a tune when i got the third stanza in my head. i just added the other two before that one. i wasn't sure how it would turn out, but i think you understand it. my friends would get it in fragments but no one could see the whole picture.
 — bear

anyone else?
 — bear

this is very interesting.  (;

*hums to beatles song*  \"ther-er-er-er-ere............there's a place.....where i can go...."  (;

i like your form.
 — ducktape

what song is that duckie? im glad you think it is interesting!
 — bear
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